LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 209, 5 December 1896, Page 2

LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

The poundkooper inserts notice regarding horse in pound. Mr 11. Heerdegen invites tenders for additions to his house in Fenton-road.

Lieut. Col. Roberts has been appointed a warden for the Hauraki mining district.

A notice in Maori appearsin another columns in reference to the eastern Maori electoral district.

The poundkeepcr notifies that lie will impound all horses straying or tethered on the public road.

Owing io a press of telegraphic and other matter reports of the picnic to To Ngae and the Church Concert on Thursday night are unavoidably held over. The Christmas numbers of the English illustrated papers are now coming to hand. Price Is lid. postage 3d extra, at Chronicle Office.

Mr Charles Turner is engaged preparing plans for a 6ft track to the summit of NTgongotaha instead of the carriage drive which was anticipated.

As soon as the new bridge across the Puarenga Creeek at Whakarewarerwa is completed the men will proceed with the construction of the wharf at the foot of Tutanekai Street.

The house on the topof Pukeroa, which proved such a bone of contention recently, has been removed to the cemetery where it will do duty as a clergyman's robing room and a sexton's toolhouse. It is stated that Mr Malcolm Fleming paid £IOO to certain Urewera natives for the privilege of prospecting their ground. A further sum of £10(10 is to be paid when payable gold is found. A meeting of the members of the Prospecting Association will take place on Saturday (to-night) at the Grand Hotel to consider the advisability of winding up the Association. The fee charged by Aporo for viewing the sights at Waiotapti has been reduced to -*s. This reduction has been in force for some time but it docs not seem to be generally known, In consequence of Friday being election day the usual monthly meeting of the Library Committee has been postponed till Monday when it will take place in the institute at the customary hour. .Mr J. Joshua of the " Spa " Taupo, inserts an announcement in repaid to his house and the coaching arrangements in connection therewith. A description of this most agreeble tourist resort will appear in next issue. In regard to Thursday's picnic at To Ngae a hearty vote of thanks from the committee of management and participators in the festivities has been conveyed to Mr H. Kirk for his kindness in lending his paddock on the occasion. In another column will he found the first of a series of descriptive articles on the Taupo district, the outcome of a recent visit. This week the Terraces Hotel and Onekeneke are described but succeeding articles will deal with " The Spa," Wairakei, Atiamnri, and so hack to Rotor ua. Mr R. 1). Dansey, postmaster, notifies that the mails for Auckland and intermediate offices hitherto closing at 1. 30 a.m on Tuesdays and Thursdays will in future close at 6.30 a.m. Now that the express train is running the post, office will be open for the delivery of letters only on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays from 7 to 7.30 p.m. On Monday morning a rather sensational report was received in town regarding the scalding of a native at Tikitere who it was alleged had been totally immersed in a boiling pool, and whose recovery was deemed hopeless. The native in question, Wiremu Matene, had bis feet and ankles severely scalded but he won't start in search of tho " Living Waters of Tane " yet awhile. It is reported that the natives who have been prospecting near Lake Taupo have found payable gold near Motutere, about 20 miles from the Taupo township. The land is owned by RaweTC Merehapo and others. Some stone sent for assay has gone over 4 ounces to the ton besides a proportion of silver. Gold is also reported to have been found at Tauranga Taupo, about 30 miles distant in the same direction, viz., towards Tokaanu. £SO, £lO, £lO, £5. Given away for a single guess. Send stump for particulars and circulars to Box 17C, P. 0., Wellington.

In comparing the list of town sections to bo submitted to public oonpetition on January -Ist with that of last sale it is noticeable that section 7 on Block '3l which was then passed in is not again pur up. As according to the regulations it. is impossible that it could have been disposed of privately its omission is most probably an oversight, which will no doubt be rectified before the unction takes place. The hotel at Waiotapu which is being erected for Mr John Falloona is proceeding rapidly towards completion. The whole of the frame work is finished _ and the building is now roofed in. The joincry work inside is now being gone on with and the house will bo ready for occupation within the contract time. Mr George Steele of Messrs Steele Brothel s. contractors, is personally supervising the work.

"We are indebted to the Registrar-Gen-eral for cdvance sheets of part 1 and 2 of the Official Year Book for 1896, which promises to be a much more bulky volume than that for the preceding year. The information contained in the portion sent us i:i mostly statistical and no doubt correct in every particular. The portion dealing with the newspaper? of the Colony sadly needs revision as journals long since defunct still appear on the list, and several started during the year rind no place in it.

Those visitors to Taupo who are not burdened with an over weighty purse can find no better accommodation than is offered at Prinn's Accommodation House, concerning which an announcement appears in another column. The weary wayfarer entering Taupo from the north has his attention directed to its proximity by a sign hoard suspended from a tree bearing the inscription " Bnb-a-nob Boarding House." Mr Prinn is Government dispenser of drags and now acts as local agent for the Hot Lakes Cukonicxe. On Friday next an open air concert will take place in th" Sanatorium Grounds on which, occasion the takings will be devoted to defraying the expenses in connection with the school children's picnic to Putaruru which comes off on the following Thursday. In connection with the latter function no effort is being spared to make it a success and it is to bo hoped that, the ireneral public will cooperate by contributing liberally on Friday evening.

Tim open air prohibition demonstration announce;! to take place on Wednesday afternoon lust proved rather a failure. Half an hour after the advertised time of commencement there were only about n dozen persons present and it was mutunllv flsrreed to adjourn the meeting till tbo following evening. On Thursday, bowovc-.r, the .-it tendance did not mneh improve, and tlie sparse audience after gazinc with anticipatory satis faction at an iin •"■•■ banner unfolded by Mr Seddon an ' hrwinsr explicit instructions how fo vote, slowly walke<? away after exhorting each other to " stride, out that top line."

Messrs Abel Dykes and Co., Auckland the publishers of the new Zealand Cricketers' Annual, favor us with a copy of this year's issue. Tt is edited by "Trundler" of the Thames, a well knowii authority on the panic and contains an immense ammonnt of matter interesting to the " kniffhts of the willow." Included in its pa Eros arc the rules of cricket as amended to 25th of last vear and a resume of the work done both in the colony and abroad during the past twelve months. Such a book should he invaluable to secretaries of clubs and as it published at the low price of one shilling there is no excuse forbeinc without it.

The largo dwelling house opposite the Sanatorium gates which has been in process of predion during tho past few weeks by Messrs Steele Brothers is now completed, and is ready for occupation as soon as a desirable tenant can he secured. The house, which will he known as thp Coffee Palace is admirably adapted to the pmposp for which it was dpsiennd. It contains fi lofty and well ventilated bedrooms. '2 sittin<r rooms and a dining room 18 by 20ft. The dado in the latter room and also that in the passage are of rinm and inntai and the whole of the timber used throughout is the nick of Messrs Steele Brothers' yards. It is not likely that a house eo well situated and substantial built will he long v thout a tenant.

The October number of the ReTiow of Reviews is full of interest. Tlie History of the Month both within and beyond the colonies is interspersed with reproductions of cartoons from the leading humourous papers which give to the readinjr matter an additional zest. 'The Wheel in Maoriland " by Mr E. D. Hoben, late of "Wellington, is tin interesting account of cycling in this Colony in the course of which the most interesting routes from a cyclist's point of view are pointed out. Mr I). J. Quinn, in his usual graphic style, serves up the feat of Captain Joshua Rlocum 'who in his yacht, '* Spray " has just completed a tour of tlieworld. The number as a whole engrosses the attention of the reader. THE IXDISPOSrnON" Experienced by delicate travellers, disorders of the stomach. loss of appetite and sleep, are all relieved by Wolfe's Schnapps.